Re: [Orgmode] [babel] evaluating shell commands for side effect

[Eric Schulte]

Hi Gregory,

"Sullivan, Gregory (US SSA)" <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm writing "how to" documents that include sequences of shell commands, such 
> as: 
>
> #+begin_src sh :session *shell*
>  cd /home/sullivan/myproj/src
>  ./configure --prefix /home/sullivan/myproj/install
>  make
>  make test
> #+end_src
>
> and simply want C-c C-c to send the lines, one at a time, to the
> inferior shell process. That is, I want readers to read along, and
> then execute the code as needed.
>

I'm not sure why this is hanging when a session is used.  Could you
remove the session argument?  If so then it should execute fine, the
following works for me (but the same block fails to complete with a
session argument)

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+begin_src sh :results silent
  cd ~/src/org/
  make
#+end_src
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

>
> Currently, it never returns (until C-g).  It might be related to the
>issues discussed last November,
>       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-11/msg01166.html
> I have the latest git version of org mode, and I think I've set 
> comint-prompt-regexp correctly.
>

I believe you're right, I've added this as a bug, and I hope to look
into it soon.

>
> So: I don't want to filter the output, I don't want to collect the
>results - just send the commands and go.
>

Using the ":results silent" argument as shown in the above code block.
See http://orgmode.org/manual/results.html#results

>
> Looking at ob-sh.el/org-babel-sh-evaluate, I can't figure out what the
>Right Thing to do is.  Appended is a cheap hack that checks for
>"ignore" as a results string (e.g. #+begin_src sh :session *shell*
>:results ignore) and sends the lines one at a time to the inferior
>shell buffer.  But I suspect there's a more straightforward way to do
>it.
>

We can't simply send the results and go, as there is still the more
common case where the results of the shell evaluation are required.  I
think the issue here is that for some reason the shell session is not
inserting results into the session buffer, and that's where the fix
should lie.

Thanks -- Eric

>
> Thoughts?
> Thanks.
>
> -- Greg
>
> --
> Greg Sullivan,   address@hidden
> (781)262-4553 (desk),  (978)430-3461 (cell)
>
> --
>
> (defun org-babel-sh-evaluate (session body &optional result-params)
>   "Pass BODY to the Shell process in BUFFER.
> If RESULT-TYPE equals 'output then return a list of the outputs
> of the statements in BODY, if RESULT-TYPE equals 'value then
> return the value of the last statement in BODY."
>   ((lambda (results)
>      (if (or (member "scalar" result-params)
>            (member "ignore" result-params)
>            (member "output" result-params))
>        results
>        (let ((tmp-file (make-temp-file "org-babel-sh")))
>        (with-temp-file tmp-file (insert results))
>        (org-babel-import-elisp-from-file tmp-file))))
>    (if (not session)
>        (org-babel-eval org-babel-sh-command (org-babel-trim body))
>      (if (member "ignore" result-params)
>        (progn
>          (save-excursion
>            (set-buffer session)
>            (mapc
>             (lambda (line)
>               (insert line) (comint-send-input nil t) (sleep-for 0.25))
>             (split-string (org-babel-trim body) "\n")))
>          '())
>
>      (let ((tmp-file (make-temp-file "org-babel-sh")))
>        (mapconcat
>       #'org-babel-sh-strip-weird-long-prompt
>       (mapcar
>        #'org-babel-trim
>        (butlast
>         (org-babel-comint-with-output
>             (session org-babel-sh-eoe-output t body)
>           (mapc
>            (lambda (line)
>              (insert line) (comint-send-input nil t) (sleep-for 0.25))
>            (append
>             (split-string (org-babel-trim body) "\n")
>             (list org-babel-sh-eoe-indicator))))
>         2)) "\n")))))
> )
>
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